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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas!

We wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years!

Hank, Hallie, Lucy, Susan, Deborah, Rhys & Julia

“I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the
gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be
so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we
shall deprive you.”
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.”
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, The Kickleburrys on the Rhine

“He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the
holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into
the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this
complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and
stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers
the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not
name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories,
belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.”
~ Willa Cather, One of Ours

“Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his
duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of
warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.”
~ George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the
winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces
with a Christmas greeting.” ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our
childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his
youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of
miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”~ Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

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